Spending Smarter: How Efficient and Well-Allocated Public Spending Can Boost Economic Growth published by IMF (10/2025). This Fiscal Monitor explores how governments can improve economic growth prospects by enhancing the efficiency and composition of public spending. Redirecting public spending…
Assuntos Econômicos
The Aggregate Costs of Uninsurable Business Risk (Boar et al.)
The Aggregate Costs of Uninsurable Business Risk by Corina Boar, Denis Gorea, Virgiliu Midrigan published by BIS (10/2025). We investigate the macroeconomic costs associated with private businesses being unable to insure against sharp fluctuations in their profits. We use…
Previdência rural no Brasil : peculiaridades e desafios em cobertura e adequabilidade por Graziela Ansiliero, Rogério Nagamine Costanzi, Ricardo Cifuentes publicado por IPEA (2025). Este estudo analisa a cobertura da previdência social, com foco no Regime Geral de Previdência…
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Strengthening the Policy Impact of Multidimensional Metrics Given Attention Constraints (Alkire et al.)
Strengthening the Policy Impact of Multidimensional Metrics Given Attention Constraints: Constructing Linked Metrics by Sabina Alkire, Ana Vaz, Christian Oldiges published by Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (1/2025). Calls for integrated multi-sectoral policy approaches recognize that dimensions of…
Public Services under Private Management by Maíra Coube, Luiz Felipe Fontes, Rudi Rocha published by Insper (2025). Theory predicts that outsourcing public services to the private sector can reduce costs and improve efficiency, but can also induce cost-cutting measures…
Small Firm Investment under Uncertainty: The Role of Equity Finance by Muhammad Meki published by QEH-University of Oxford (8/2024). Private enterprise development in low-income countries remains elusive, and the failure of microcredit to stimulate small firm growth poses a…
Is Economics Promoting Inequality? by Kaushik Basu published by Project Syndicate (10/2025). Mainstream economics has often underestimated the critical role of trust and cooperation in enabling prosperity. As a result, it has justified and even encouraged the greed, exploitation,…
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Fiscal Guardrails against Rising Debt and Looming Spending Pressures (Acalin et al.)
Fiscal Guardrails against Rising Debt and Looming Spending Pressures by Julien Acalin, Virginia Alonso, Clara Arroyo, W. Raphael Lam, Leonardo Martinez, Anh Dinh Minh Nguyen, Francisco Roch, Galen Sher, and Alexandra Solovyeva published by IMF (9/2025). Many countries have…
Endividamento público e tributação: Federação e financiamento das políticas públicas por Marcus Pestana publicado por Instituição Fiscal Independente (10/2025). O problema central da economia brasileira, a desafiar a política econômica, é o progressivo estrangulamento fiscal e a deterioração do…
Limites globais para o montante da dívida consolidada da União apresentação realizada por José R. Afonso em CAE (11/2015). “Senado Federal não deveria perder oportunidade ímpar…Tirar país da contramão mundial em termos fiscais; retomar reformas e embarcar na geração…
